Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-10-29
BROKE HIN IN.
Brave Young Wife Successfully Reforms
Profiigate Husband.

Brave Young Wife Successfully Reforms
a Profiigate Husband.
Not very long ago young woman of
this city married man to whom her
| friends offered many objections. His WAYS
were not the ways of pleasantness, and his
feet were unfamiliar with the paths of
peace. He had wandered aimlessly through
the devious byways of iniquity, and there
were those who believed him incapable of
approaching woman of even average
responsibility.
! Why he should wish to marry at all was
the great question amoung his friends,
while the minds of the opposition were
haunted by the specter of womanhood
wrecked and fortune squandered.
But they were married, and in few
months the young wife began TO realize
the predictions of her friends. Domestic
life was too tame for her high spirited hus-
band. He began to stay out nights She
sat up for him, to demonstrate when he
came home. He staid later and later.
hoping to tire her out, and frequently did
not get in until daylight. Things were
getting desperate. He had gone back to
ms first love, poker, and the last state of
| the man was worse than the first. She
was plucky woman and a proud one.
Too plucky to be mistreatod without a
protest. and too proud to complain to her
friends. More than this she was in love
with her husband. There were times when
he felt that his deserts were small and his
oiienses rank. and at such times he
reSorted to the aged and transpa-
rent subterfuge Of explaining his
absence on business basis. Some
times these notes were accompanied by a
nice hot lunch or Il bottle of champagne,
as if woman could enjoy a solitary drink
any more than a man. He knew the trick
was old, and that it did not work" and
he sometimes though Of offering a reward
for something newer and better. There
were moments in the early morning when
a pale, tired face, with large dark eyes.
iloated mistily between him and the lack
pot he coveted, but he regarded this rs a
weakness unworthy man of the world.
and steadily pursued his way.
One evening" when they had been mar
ried Just 4 year, she was sitting alone as
usual waiting for him to come to supper.
1t was the anniversary of their marriage,
and she had made preparations to celebrate
ii in 4 quiet way.
The daintiest of suppers was waiting
upon the daintiest of tablest at the hour
when well-regulated husbands are supposed
to come to the evening meal Close at
hand was the present provided for the
occasion, and, while she thought with some
bitterness that he should have been the
one to remember, she was determined that
no shadow of reproach should intrude upon
the enjoyment of the evening. The hours
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per set untasted upon the table. About 10
o'clock the servant brought in a note.
"The same old story" said the wife. as she
crushed it in her hand. She tossed it into
the fire, and after it she threw the inoffen
siye present. Turning to the servant, she
! said: Don't 90 to bed, James; | shall
need You after awhile"
W hen James services were next in de-
mand 1t was lib in the morning, and he
was posting toward Jefferson street in
search of hack. Ills mistress, meanwhile.
in hat and gloves, was impatiently await
ing his return. Twenty minutes later the
! hack stood before the entrance of a fash
ionable poker-room on - street, and
the servant was going up stairs with
| this message: Tell my husband
that | am here in hack and | want
him to come home" The message was as
quietly delivered and as quietly answered.
Tell my wife to go home and go to bed
I'll come when | get ready" As the
negro started down stairs his master
was hugging a ten-luli and gracefully
sliding stack of chips toward the center
of the table. The operation was scarcely
finished when a hand was laid upon his
arm and voice familiar, but unnaturallv
calm and measured in its tones, said: ''Mr.
b., | am waiting for YOU" To describe
the effect upon &. and has companions is A
task beyond the average pencil. b. was
man of few words and he knew when the
limit had been reached. He took his
wife'S arm quietly, but with no gentle grip.
ana went down stairs
The humiliation was complete. That
his wife should appear in such a place was
enough. To be led away in triumph was
a little more than the mildest-mannered
man could endure. Half dozen plans for
revenge and self-protection fitted through
his mind, but only one found utterance.
| would not live with you another TWEEN
ty-four hours for the universe" he said.
rs they were whirling home "This nights
performance Isl disgrace, and it will be
all over town before daylight" You are
not compelled to live with me-" replied the
wife, "but as long as you do live with me
you'll come home at 4 proper hour, if
have to go after you with search-war-
rant"
When they reached home Mrs. B. re-
tired, and counterfeiled sleep, while b.
flung himself into the nearest chair and
looked the situation desperately in the
face. Should he leave town? Should he
get up and smother Mrs b. with pillow,
or should he get divorce? Just how the
matter was settled never came out, but B.
dallies no more with his favorite vice The
neighbor who lives opposite is ready to
make affidavit that he comes home at
seasonable hour. Mrs B. remarked limo
Gently to friend the other day: 81 have
the best husband in the world now, but
never would undertake to break in another
man. "-Loui3rjHe C0mieT-Jomnal